“The RoseBouquet”

I’ve become aware that Microsoft has come out with a newer version of Internet Explorer, (IE7), the browser you most likely are using if you have an up to date Windows system on your computer. Have you run into problems visiting some sites?

One man wrote me Monday to say he couldn’t go back to fill out an online application form and was told it was because of his IE7 browser. What was he to do? Could I fill it out for him?

I went to look and realized the answer was very simple. That same site suggested that it was the faults in the IE7 which created this problem for some people, and that they should download Firefox instead. This person didn’t know what that was, or how.

I sent him to this page; download-firefox.org He followed the instructions, and yesterday wrote that he was now using Firefox.

If you use a Mac computer, you’ll want to visit this site instead; CaminoBrowser.org

While checking into these things just now I discovered there is also SeaMonkey, a suite of applications, which used to be Netscape, (and it happens to be on my computer already ). Furthermore, I discover that it has Composer in it, in a much better way than the one where I created my very first web page 8 years ago. If you would like to learn to make web pages from raw HTML coding, you might like to download and install SeaMonkey.

If you have the hardware space, there is no reason why you can’t have Firefox AND SeaMonkey on your computer besides whatever else you have. For the security of your computer, you’re far better off not even opening your Internet Explorer. Microsoft admits it doesn’t not measure up to the World Wide Web Consortium Standards, and it is known to easily let viruses jump into your computer to torment you.

In my eAction Blog tomorrow, eAction, I will feature an article by my Linux mentor, Fred Miller, about a news story where a clean and good 16 year old boy was accused of downloading p___ on the family computer and was about to face 90 years in prison. A Windows computer is exceptionally vulnerable to such attacks.

You know the adage; Buyer Beware! Here’s another one; Browser Beware!